Shoptalk and sociology at Supernova 2006

SAN FRANCISCO--Tech bigwigs from the worlds of business, government and academia are gathered at the Supernova 2006 confab and Wharton West Workshops here to examine how the Net and other paradigm-shifting technologies are making a new world of it--and to offer insights on how to survive in this brave new place.

Heavyweights like Craigslist's Craig Newmark, MySpace co-founder Kyle Brinkman and FCC Commissioner Michael Copps join representatives from Microsoft, Skype, the U.S. Department of Defense, USC's Annenberg Center for Communications and other organizations for three days of shoptalk and sociology.

Wikia facilitates a set of communities with member-edited Web sites on everything from "Star Trek" to Firefox to caring for sick pets. Here, down-to-earth CEO Gil Pechina talks about the surprises he's encountered in the Wikia realm, and how growing up in a small town has shaped his virtual-world view.

Despite Craiglist's small staff, the free community classifieds site is expanding to new cities as newspapers lose print classifieds, their traditional bread-and-butter business. But Newmark tells CNET News.com reporter and Washington Post alum Greg Sandoval that he has no desire to kill off the broadsheets.

Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org, sits down to talk with Tiwari. The events-based Web community was recently acquired by Yahoo and is one of many new browser options utilizing microformats, a new standard in Web content.

Becoming ever closer to the main stream; 2.0 may not be for the novice.

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Becoming ever closer to the main stream; 2.0 may not be for the novice.

A fully functional distribution infrastucture for the average earning individual will very well find out that paying for an HTML website with direct mailing access, to be within an annual budget. Plus the let's say common domain fee; which may be included with your provider, Finding a SQL/RSS provider which carries personnal music reditions or entertaining video feeds in that assigned format will come closer to the bbc charges you would pay each year in the UK. or close to five times as much money than HTML. Cost of ownership is no less than eight times more than RSS, with most software when purchasing through venders and using named brand merchandise. this has been my personnal shopping experience.

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